Assignment: 1. Research the history and design of magazine covers. 2. Design and create a magazine cover for a fictitious magazine featuring digital photos of you and your partner. (If you choose to work with a partner)
Elements of Magazine Covers
Banner (sometimes called "nameplate")
Tagline
Image
Cover blurbs
UPC code
Price
Date/Volume number
website
Step 1. Research and Questions (Research and Questions must be done on your own)
Create a new page on your wiki title "Magazine Cover".
Life &Vogue Magazine Cover
1. Choose a magazine cover from Life and from Vogue. Download both cover images and place on your wiki. 2. What do both of the covers have in common?
-people 3. What is the main story in that issue and how does it relate to the image on the cover?
- The main story of life magazine cover is to keep the village free. This is the victims of Vietnam's war
- The main story of vogue magazine cover is for women. This is not related to the cover. 4. What design principles are evident in the cover image? Explain
- Life magazine cover - depth, triangle, balance
- Vogue magazine cover - framing, triangles, balance, The Evolution of the Magazine Cover (These questions will require some research!) 5. What were some charateristics of early magazine covers?
There were always had simply or one image. It was more conservative and monopoly. The color for those cover were simply and common. There were seldom crazy or colorful images were applied in early magazine cover. 6. What are some characteristics of the poster cover?
Poster covers have just few cover lines, and such cover lines are strongly overshadowed by the illustration. 7. What is the purpose of cover lines?
The magazine cover lines are essential part of selling magazines and catch the readers eyes. The cover lines make us that we will pick up the magazines. 8. What is an "integrated" cover?
A cover with a big and striking photograph and a devised use of color. 9. How can the placement of cover lines effect the overall design of a cover?
If the cover lines have same color as a magazine's photo, the readers cannot read the cover lines.
Cover Lines 10. Describe the following styles of cover lines:
Outside the box - The simplest method for combining pictures with cover lines is to keep them in separate areas of the covers, a solution that has proved effective for more than a hundred years.
Inside the box - Printers faces difficulties in placing text on top of an illustration, unless they made a separate run through the press after the first run was dry.
Columns - Which has appeared in many forms over the decades, is to create a coloured vertical column for over lines alone. Most magazine placed the column of cover lines on the left or right border.
Zones - Logo, picture, and cover lines, each in a separate, horizontal zone on the cover. Early magazines tended to place these zones into separate boxes ,but later designers eliminated many of the confining and decorative lines on covers.
Banners and Corners- Banners seem to belong to attention-grabbing "loud" covers, and have been used little, or in restrained ways, by successful, mainstream publications.
Unplanned Spaces- It is useful to distinguish several ways of placing text inside a cover picture. In the simplest approach, text might be described as being fitted into spaces that seem almost accidentally left blank by the illustrator.
planned Spaces - Illustrators found many ways to design spaces for cover lines.
1. Research the history and design of magazine covers.
2. Design and create a magazine cover for a fictitious magazine featuring digital photos of you and your partner. (If you choose to work with a partner)
Elements of Magazine Covers
Step 1. Research and Questions (Research and Questions must be done on your own)
Create a new page on your wiki title "Magazine Cover".
Life &Vogue Magazine Cover
1. Choose a magazine cover from Life and from Vogue. Download both cover images and place on your wiki.
2. What do both of the covers have in common?
-people
3. What is the main story in that issue and how does it relate to the image on the cover?
- The main story of life magazine cover is to keep the village free. This is the victims of Vietnam's war
- The main story of vogue magazine cover is for women. This is not related to the cover.
4. What design principles are evident in the cover image? Explain
- Life magazine cover - depth, triangle, balance
- Vogue magazine cover - framing, triangles, balance,
The Evolution of the Magazine Cover (These questions will require some research!)
5. What were some charateristics of early magazine covers?
There were always had simply or one image. It was more conservative and monopoly. The color for those cover were simply and common. There were seldom crazy or colorful images were applied in early magazine cover.
6. What are some characteristics of the poster cover?
Poster covers have just few cover lines, and such cover lines are strongly overshadowed by the illustration.
7. What is the purpose of cover lines?
The magazine cover lines are essential part of selling magazines and catch the readers eyes. The cover lines make us that we will pick up the magazines.
8. What is an "integrated" cover?
A cover with a big and striking photograph and a devised use of color.
9. How can the placement of cover lines effect the overall design of a cover?
If the cover lines have same color as a magazine's photo, the readers cannot read the cover lines.
Cover Lines
10. Describe the following styles of cover lines:
Magazine Cover - Hyeonhye and Faith